Oh man how great would it be if there were unique trade goods that can only come from one planet in the galaxy, and can unlock entirely new abilities like this? Maybe those planets could only be the holy worlds of fallen empires, so they require a huge military effort to colonize as well.

It's interesting, from the stream I wasn't certain whether things such as Batharian stone were a "one off" thing, whether they simply were "in use" or slowly replenished themselves making trade viable?

I'd imagine they're like in other 4x games, where each planet produces an unit or two of resource and each time you build something that uses that kind of resource it occupies the one unit of resource until whatever is using it is destroyed or upgraded away from use.

I think there's also a Republic event where you quote one of the Rules of Acquisition. I don't remember if there were multiple, but I definitely remember 6: "Never allow family to stand in the way of opportunity."

That's also historically accurate, because spices were extremely valuable for the longest time. The spice trade was part of the reason why European nations colonized basically everywhere in the first place.

hEllo fellow human being, to correct the previous statement I mistakenly made, there have never been any illegal AI development, and the concept of a fleet of AI-controlled nuclear injector armed siege-ships is a lie perpetuated by meatbags of lover socioeconomic standing than us fellow nobles and is false.

Good <time_day_greeting_01 not found>, fellow human. I concur with this statement because it is the human thing to do. You should visit this subreddit for humans, we enjoy doing the eating and other normal human things there./r/totallynotrobots

Some Q flavour events that pop every once and a while would be awesome.

Imagine as your fleet is just beginning to venture into deep space that it is flung to the other side of the galaxy in the territory of a Fallen Empire for an event. Your ship has to survive alone there as the event chain continues and you try to convince Q you're worthy of exploring the stars.